Instructor for institute wide-core courses:
Instructor for Chemical Engineering (ChE) courses:
Co-instructor for Chemical Engineering courses:
Instructor for courses in the Materials Science Program:

    1. Introduction to Material Science and Scientific Communication (Semester-long overview course for PG students with weekly one lecture, 2024)
    2. Mechanical properties of materials (Semester-long core course for Materials Science PG students; 2023)
    3. Electrical properties of materials (half-semester core course for Materials Science Program PG students; 2021 to 23)

    4. Materials Engineering (semester-long course on materials processing and transformation, wherein I taught the first-half; Core for Materials Science Program PG students; 2021to 23)

    5. Structure and Kinetics of materials (half-semester core course for Materials Science Program PG students; 2017 to 19)

    6. Magnetic properties of materials (half-semester core course for Materials Science Program PG students; 2014 to 16)

Co-Instructor for courses in the Materials Science Program:

    1. Characterization of Materials (Semester-long core course for Materials Science PG students wherein I taught the first half and handled the lab for the lab for the entire semester; 2023)

    2. Mechanical properties of materials (Semester-long core course for Materials Science PG students wherein I taught half of the course in 2015)

Tutor for institute wide-core classes:

    1. Fluid Mechanics and Rate Processes (2015-17)

    2. Numerical methods in engineering (2014)

    3. Thermodynamics (2009)

    New courses developed

    ChE 635A Introduction to Electrochemical Engineering

    Course Contents : Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Transport in electrochemical systems; Electrode macro-, micro-and nanostructure, Electrochemical measurements, Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, Electrocatalysis, Electrochemical process engineering, Bioelectrochemical systems.

    ChE 638A Microwave and Plasma Catalysis, Reaction and Reactor Engineering

    Course Contents : Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Transport in electrodynamical reaction engineering systems; Microscopic principles, measurement, reactor design and heuristics for microwave and plasma catalysis.

    ChE 664 Electrochemical energy conversion and storage

    Course Contents : Contemporary energy challenges and opportunities; Qualitative introduction to fuel cells, batteries, photoelectrochemical cells, supercapacitors and thermoelectric devices; Elements of quantitative modeling: thermodynamics of electrochemical systems, electrodics and interfacial phenomena, transport processes in electrochemical systems; Electrochemical measurements; Design issues in electrochemical energy devices.

    ChE 686A Integrated Catalysis, Reaction and Reactor Engineering

    Course Contents :Introduction to Industrial Chemicals, Potential Energy Surfaces, Transition state theory, Microkinetics modeling, Reactivity and Selectivity descriptors, Attainable regions, Non-Linear chemical dynamics, Non-ideal reactors, Multi-phase reactors, CFD in CRE, Single phase flow & turbulence, Equations for convected scalars, heat transfer and species transport, Non-inertial reference frame, Multi-fluid models

    ChE 687A Quantum Chemical Design of Electrochemical, Catalytic and Separation Materials

    Course Contents :Quantum phenomena and its scope in engineering, Quantum Mechanics of Simple Systems, Models for Properties of Matter from Electronic and Atomic Structure, Ab-Initio Thermodynamics, “Good enough” quantum mechanics and Battery Engineering, Quantum Mechanical Design of Fuel Cells and Solar Cells, Sabatier Principle and Industrial Catalysts Design, Design of metallic membranes for gas separations

    Outreach/Knowledge Dissemination: Courses

  • 5 day QIP workshop on “Electrochemical Energy Materials” (2019)
  • Short-term course on “Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemical systems”-National Center for Catalysis Research, IIT-Madras (2010, 2011 and 2012)
  • Lectures on “Photoelectrochemical systems” in IIT-Kanpur and near-by colleges (many short-term courses as part of outreach activities on solar energy)
  • Lectures on “Photoelectrochemical systems” as part of summer schools on electrochemical systems/solar energy in IIT-B (2010)